annuals

Hard as it is to believe and still harder to accept, next week will be Labor Day and that is the end of summer. I enjoy autumn but still regret summer’s exit … so on we go from here. I want you to stop feeding any shrubs, roses or trees for this season. We want the growth that is there to mature, and fertilizing at this time will encourage new growth which will have a hard time surviving winter.…

I got to make my annual spring run to a few of Detroit’s largest garden centers this past weekend.  It has been a cool spring there as well as for us, so they were not fully stocked if the plants were not grown on site.  I still managed to find a few plants that wowed me that I haven’t been able to get locally. So I considered the trip a success.  A new wonderful annual that was introduced two…